I am glad I found this site. I have no resources or guidance in the remote town that I live in. The nearest city is 8 hours away. I have just recently discovered Buddhism. I am looking forward to learning something new everyday.

But if this neutral feeling that has arisen is conditioned by the body which is impermanent, compounded and dependently arisen, how could such a neutral feeling be permanent? - SN 36.7

Welcome Northernbuck to Dhamma Wheel!As a matter of interest, where do you live?Anyway...I hope you like it here!metta

Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

there are plenty of online resources dotted about on here, hope you find here very useful

This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!Blog,-Some Suttas Translated,Ajahn Chah."Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."

"When we transcend one level of truth, the new level becomes what is true for us. The previous one is now false. What one experiences may not be what is experienced by the world in general, but that may well be truer. (Ven. Nanananda)

“I hope, Anuruddha, that you are all living in concord, with mutual appreciation, without disputing, blending like milk and water, viewing each other with kindly eyes.” (MN 31)

Ben wrote:Welcome Northernbuck to Dhamma Wheel!As a matter of interest, where do you live?Anyway...I hope you like it here!metta

Ben

I live in a little known town called Thompson, Manitoba. If you look at a map of Canada, move to the center of the country, find Winnipeg, and go north. Yes it is cold (winter is from October until May), but beautiful.

But if this neutral feeling that has arisen is conditioned by the body which is impermanent, compounded and dependently arisen, how could such a neutral feeling be permanent? - SN 36.7

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

There's an international directory on Buddhanet for Buddhist meditation instruction - here's one for your province: http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/province. ... ince_id=11I had a brief look but couldn't find anything in Thompson. Keep in mind that it may not be up-to-date nor exhaustive. The list includes centres from all Buddhist traditions and not just Theravada. You might want to get in touch with the Theravada centres in Manitoba or Winnipeg and see if they can support you remotely - its worth an email or two!

The above should get you started!metta

Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725